O'Shares ETFs and NYSE-listed ETF OUSA, celebrate one-year anniversary with strong growth, outperforming the S&P 500 by +10.6%(1)
BOSTON, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The O'Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF (NYSE ticker OUSA) outperformed the S&P 500 by +10.6% in the twelve months since listing on the NYSE one year ago (inception date, July 14th, 2015)1, attracting strong asset growth from a range of institutional and retail investors. The portfolio of OUSA owns 140 U.S. large cap dividend stocks selected for Quality, Low Volatility, Yield and Diversification, based on an index developed for O'Shares ETF Investments by FTSE Russell, a global leader in index strategies.
Kevin O'Leary, Chairman of O'Shares ETF Investments, believes that ETFs are evolving, as new rules-based ETFs offer investors choices to own alongside or instead of market-cap weighted ETFs. "Growth of this new generation of ETFs will be driven by investors searching for less risk and more yield in a low interest rate environment," commented Mr. O'Leary, who is well-known as an investor on ABC's Shark Tank and contributor on CNBC. "We are very pleased with the performance OUSA has generated for investors, getting over 90% of market upside performance and less than 50% of the market downside performance during the period, essentially winning by losing less". 1
Connor O'Brien, CEO of O'Shares ETF Investments, added, "OUSA performance is driven by its unique portfolio of 140 dividend stocks, selected for financial Quality, Low Volatility and Yield, and excludes all the rest that do not measure up. Also, because there are many great global companies in Europe and in Asia, we have applied the same rules to stocks in Europe for O'Shares ETFs: OEUR (local currency) and OEUH (currency hedged to USD), and the same again for stocks in Asia for OASI (local currency) and OAPH (currency hedge to USD). These ETFs focused on Europe and Asia give investors access to global diversification using a consistent rules-based investment approach." All five O'Shares ETFs are driven by indexes developed for O'Shares by FTSE Russell.
Since Inception Total Return (Market Value)1 | OUSA | S&P 500 |
15.9% | 5.4% |
OUSA | 1 MTH | 3 MTH | 6 MTH | 1 YR2 | QTD | YTD | SI | Net Expense | Gross Expense | |
NAV | 3.70% | 5.41% | 11.92% | - | 5.41% | 11.92% | 13.39% | 0.48% | 0.56% | |
Market Value | 3.55% | 5.29% | 11.62% | - | 5.29% | 11.62% | 13.27% | |||
1. Source: Bloomberg. Data as of 7/14/2016. | ||||||||||
2. Data as of 6/30/2016. This information not yet available, OUSA launched on July 14, 2015. | ||||||||||
The Fund's investment adviser, FFCM LLC ("Adviser"), has agreed to reimburse the Fund in an amount equal to the Fund's allocable portion of the compensation and expenses of the Independent Trustees (including Independent Trustee counsel fees) until at least July 10, 2018.
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O'Shares Investments
O'Shares ETFs use the FTSE Russell Quality/Volatility/Yield rules-based indexes for investing in large cap dividend paying equities. These indexes provide a rules-based approach for investing in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, which seeks more yield, less risk and strong long-term investment performance. O'Shares ETFs is designed to be a core investment holding, providing cost efficient access to a portfolio of large-cap and mid-cap high quality, low volatility, dividend paying companies. oshares.com.
FTSE Russell
FTSE Russell is a global leader in index benchmarking and analytics, positioned to develop and offer indexing solutions for investors worldwide. Leading asset owners, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks use FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their investment performance and create ETFs, institutional separate accounts and index-based derivatives. FTSE Russell is wholly owned by London Stock Exchange Group. ftserussell.com.
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